Benjamin m



To alljvlwm it ma'fy concern; f -l Beit known that I, BENQIAMIN M, ELY,of the town of Perry, in fthe county of Balls, and State of Missouri, lI have invented a new and useful Improvement `in Gorntion and operationof the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, makingpart ofthis specification,

l l corn-cultivator constructed with my improvements, and

position of the parts thereof.-

y l between adjacent `rows,) and present, at will, either theshovel-shaped tooth or the mould-board-shaped tooth arated into twoparis, and each'used as a distinct cn'ltivator.

` the two halves or parts ofthe cultivator in the rear.

two beams, E E, in front.

"teeth are attached,jand

. plement.

` several holes, between c o "l .to aiibrd itthe required stillness andstrength, and,

` like the bars A and B, it should be perforated with ser L; T.TULLY,1AND WILLIAM PERRY, MISSOURI, AssICNoR To HiMsELF,

A. AND LYMAN P. M UNGER. l

Lenm Pam; ivo. l87,401, am: Merch 2, 1869.

narnovnunnr nr cum-:venons Cultivators; ,and I do hereby declare thatthe followingis afu'll, clear, and exact description of the construcinwhichy Figure lisaperspectivc view` of adouble-convertible l Figure 2 isalike view of the same, but with a trans- 'lhe nature of my inventionconsists in so construct# ling a corn-cnltivator that it maybe used as awhole, and tc cultivate or stir up the soil on both sides of a row ofcorn at the same operation, whether the corn be high or low, (or to stirup the soil at one operation to the corn-rows, or the implement may beeasily sep- In the drawingsi A and B represent two bars, which arefastened to O represents the bar, or evener,.which connects the g g areclevises. n n' are th sta dards to which the shovel-shaped m lm. are thestandards to whichth'e mould-board;-

shaped teeth are'attached.

D D' are the two halves or parts composing the im- Fig.2` represents theimplement with the two parts D D' reversed orrtransposed. o' 1 Iconstruct the bar A. with a series of holes in and near each end of it,as at b a, b' d', through which bolts `or staples maybe passed, in orderto fasten the bar to thetops ofthe uprighs G G', so that the distancebeltween the uprights maybe regulated as desired.

y Holes are also bored vertically in the bar B, for a similar purpose,for the insertion of the hooks c c', by which it is attached to thenprights. i l `The. uprights G G lshould 'lso' be perforated `with and aa', so that by changing the hooks c c' in the holes, the bar B may beraised or lowered, according te the heghtslof the corn-plants.

The bar U should bc made of sufficient dimensions eral holes, in andnear each end, so that, by changing the hooks h h' in the holes,thedistance between the beams E andE may berregulated.

`'lhese three bals, the two uprights, and the beams,

.constitute the anie .of "the cultivator, and hold it to gether.

The draught-power 'may be applied to the bal' O in i any proper manner.

By'means of the note ed clevises g g', the depth ofy the teeth in theground l`s regulated. The bar may be `ade. straight; but when itisdesired that the cultiva r shall pass with its centre above the com, itmay be made to bow up in the centre, as indicated by the dotted lines inthe drawings, so as to avoid breaking the plants when they shall havebecome large. l

The teeth e e' and ff may be made of any suitable metal, two of them inthe shovel-form, and the other two lin the mould-board fo'rm, andfastened to the standards n n' and m m', as indicated in the drawings.

When the, implement ais used in its double form, it

`may be drawn by `two an mals, one travelling on each side of thecorn-romandfthe centre passing over the plants; or it may be drawn byasingle animal, and the teeth made to stir up the whole surface betweentwo adjacent rows of corn.

If the corn-plants be very young and small, the implement may be used asrepresented in fig. 1, the barsides of the teeth e d being brought asnear to each other as may be desired, by the means before described.`

The bar-sides of these teeth may be run very near the plants, justskimming oil' the `crust of the soil, and including the young weeds,while the shovel-shaped 'teeth may be made to run more or less deep, bymeans of the nuts and screws upon the rods d d', and to stir up thesoil, but at such a distance from the plants as not to iniure them.Reference is had here to running the centre of the implement over thecorn-row; but if it be desired to have itpass between adjacent rows,then, by transposing the parts D D', as in iig. '2, the har-sides of themould-board-shaped teeth will run next the corn, while `theshovel-shaped teeth will stir up the soil in the,

middle.

Moreover, the standards an m' and -n n', being of the same form anddimensions, and the means of fastening them to the beams being the same,the changes desired in the relative positions of the teeth may bee'ected by changing the standards themselves.v

Again, it is ob lions that the two parts D D' may be separated, and eachused as a separate implement, when desired.

The frame before described is calculated to hold the teeth. steady, andsecure uniformity in their action, while in operation, whether run deepor shallow.

What I claim, and desire to secure by- Letters Patent, is

1. A corn-cultivator, so constructed, of two equal and similar parts DD', which may be easily transposed,

r so that one may take the place of the other, that it-can be usedeither as one implement or two distinct implements, substantially as andfor the purposes described.

2. The adjustable bars A and B, when used in the construction of adouble cultivator, constructed substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

3. The adjustable bar O, when used in the construction of a. doublecorn-cnltivator, constructed substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

4. The standards mm andnn, when so constructed as to be interchangeable,in a, corn-cultivator, substantially as and for the purpose described.

5. The frame, composed of the bars A, B, and O, and the uprights G G',and beams E E, when used in the construction of a. doublecorn-cultivatcr, substantilly as and for the purposes described.

Witnesses: BENJAMIN M. ELY.

Ons. A. SINCLAIBE, S. R. GAMER.

